Glad to get more information on the new billing in this thread - the new billing doc leaves many important questions unanswered. I am still foggy on what will happen with these new billing units and whether App Engine will still be affordable for startups and small projects (i.e. without guaranteed paying audiences or "Enterprise" funding).
As a little feedback I don't at all think this is easier to understand than CPU, which we've been able to measure in various ways for a while. How does the difference between a GqlQuery vs. a get_by_key_name factor in to the new billing? Both are entity fetches in some sense, but surely running the query doesn't take the same amount of time as using the key name? On the issue of reads and writes being billed the same: take your typical fetch of an entity by key name, and compare it to your typical put of an entity with a change to an indexed property. Is the difference in CPU time between the fetch and the put entirely accounted for by index writes? Because the concern here is whether the new billing will maintain the ratio between the costs of reads and writes in line with actual resource use. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
